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v. To seize (private property) for the public treasury.

v. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate.

adj. Seized by a government; appropriated.

adj. Having lost property through confiscation.

v. To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

adj. Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.

v. To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; appropriate, by way of penalty, to public use.

To take away from another by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily, as anything improperly held or obtained by another; seize as forfeited for any reason: as, to confiscate a book; the police confiscated a set of gambling implements.

Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.

Appropriated under legal authority as forfeited.

v. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

adj. surrendered as a penalty

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confiscated    confiscates    confiscating   

confiscation   

confiscated    confiscating   

forfeited    take    seize    appropriate    forfeit    condemn    sequestrate    sequester    rob    steal